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Losses from extreme events over 31 years were $3.8 trillion | Data

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Losses from extreme events over 31 years were .8 trillion | Data

Homes are surrounded by floodwaters in Sohbat Pur city, a district of Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province | Photo Credit: Zahid Hussain Disaster events are not only becoming more frequent and severe but their impact is also expected to worsen. The year 2023 brought an end to the warmest decade on record, marked by unprecedented extreme…

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From Western disturbances to El Niño, climate change is affecting India’s food security

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From Western disturbances to El Niño, climate change is affecting India’s food security

There has been a series of disruptive weather and climate phenomena in India this year, demonstrating the complexity of our precipitation system. There was the Western disturbance, which usually brings much-needed moisture from European seas to the western Himalaya and parts of northern India in the winter and spring. But this year, the Western disturbance…

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Budget 2023 | SKM, activists criticise allocations to agriculture, food security

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Budget 2023 | SKM, activists criticise allocations to agriculture, food security

Midday Meal workers burn copies of Union Budget 2023-24 during their protest, in Kolkata, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), the umbrella organisation of more than 300 farmers’ outfits and the Right to Food Campaign, a platform for activists working on food and nutritional security, termed the Budget…

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